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«Look on high, set your gazes far». The Church’s heart is young. And aims at a United World

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 17 settembre 2012 · 1 Comment · In church

There is a hidden Church. It is made up of young people committing for a better world; of believers that live the Gospel; of people who simply try to lend an hand to their neighbour. It is hidden only because big medias focus on gossips, power struggles and (true or false) plots and scandals. [...]

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Babylon. Behind the quiet revolution of Benedict XVI, guerrilla. From inside and outside the Church

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 13 febbraio 2012 · 1 Comment · In Holy See

«The important thing is that the message, the response of Fatima, in substance is not directed to particular devotions, but precisely to the fundamental response, that is, to ongoing conversion, penance, prayer, and the three theological virtues: faith, hope and charity. […] As for the new things which we can find in this message [...]

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Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord. Silvano Maria Tomasi, the love for the Truth

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 23 gennaio 2012 · 1 Comment · In diplomacy

«The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man». This extract of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky well represents – according to the archbishop Silvano Maria Tomasi – the experience of competition between [...]

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World diplomacy. Benedict XVI’s effort

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 16 gennaio 2012 · Leave a Comment · In diplomacy

To get back to the solidity of International law, to abandon – or at least take it in less consideration – the fickleness of diplomacy. If there is a plan, this is the one of Benedict XVI. Since the beginning of his papacy, he gave his personal impact to the Vatican diplomacy. [...]

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Message for the World Day of Peace: what it is, what it would have been

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 19 dicembre 2011 · 1 Comment · In Holy See

There is the official Message for the World Day of Peace. And there is the message that could have been, and has not. There are Benedict XVI’s words – that in Benin  «blessed» the events that have produced the «Arab springtime» and independence in Southern Sudan; and there is a message that [...]

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Egypt, toward a new Exodus?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 17 ottobre 2011 · Leave a Comment · In international affairs

Since March 2011, nearly 100,000 Christians have emigrated from Egypt. If the emigration of Christians continues at the present rate, it could reach 250,00 by the end of 2011. The data were delivered from the Egyptian Union of Human Rights Organization (EHRO), and it takes the most recent picture of what is [...]

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From Norway with hate. Why was Breivik depicted as a Christian fundamentalist?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 1 agosto 2011 · 5 Comments · In Holy See

Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, went to an official visit to Norway to take «the solidarity of the Catholic Church and the solidarity of the Holy Father, in particular, to Norway at this tragic time, along with greetings for the great Feast of St Olaf, which was [...]

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Undermining Holy See diplomacy. An impossible mission?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 16 maggio 2011 · 4 Comments · In Holy See

Would it be possible to eject the Holy See from the international organizations? This not such a new idea. In 2007, The Economist - English weekly which is widely read in government foreign offices – ended  an article about the Vatican diplomacy with this advice for the Holy See: «It could renounce its special [...]

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Spain, is it a kind of religious war bullettin?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 25 aprile 2011 · 1 Comment · In religious freedom

«A praise to God». That’s how Pope Benedict XVI defined the Sagrada Familia, which he consecrated the last November. Sagrada Familia remained under construction for about 128 years. Andoni Gaudì, a Catalan architect, was the genius who projected that monumental church. He died ran over by a streetcar, leaving his masterpiece unfinished.

Sagrada [...]

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Holy See and China, toward a «creative solution»

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 4 aprile 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Holy See

«In a particular way, in Asia and in Africa, the chief victims are the members of religious minorities, who are prevented from freely professing or changing their religion by forms of intimidation and the violation of their rights, basic freedoms and essential goods, including the loss of personal freedom and life itself». Benedict XVI [...]

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